A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.